I have now scanned the 1981 facsimile reproduction of this manuscript, and Lubomir has kindly uploaded it to Archive.org. The link is:
https://archive.org/details/sarva-tathagata-tattva-sangraha Best regards, David Reigle Colorado, U.S.A. On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 11:22 AM David and Nancy Reigle <[email protected]> wrote: > First, thank you to Ryan Conlon for finding the listing of this manuscript > that I could not find in the catalogue of the Nepalese-German Manuscript > Cataloging Project, and for providing a link to it. This is very helpful. > > Next, as I suspected, there is only one old manuscript of the > *Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha*, not two. Daisy Cheung made this clear in > an off-list reply to me. Thank you to her for that. She then provided > additional information about it: > > "For a new description of the Sanskrit MS of the STTS available see > Tanemura 2020: (75)ff. > > Tamenura, Ryugen 種村隆元. 2020. > ‘Saravatathāgatatattvasaṃgrahaの説くāveśa儀礼—金剛界大マンダラ章「成就が生じるための印に関する智」校訂テキストおよび和訳注—’. > 智山学報 69: 71–97. > > "Tanemura 2020 can be downloaded here: > > https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/chisangakuho/69/0/69_0071/_pdf/-char/ja > > It made no sense to me that there would be two very old manuscripts of > this text, both discovered independently in the same library, first by > Tucci in 1932 and then by David Snellgrove and John Brough in 1956. That > was one reason for my inquiry, the other being a wish to obtain scans of > this manuscript. The description of this manuscript by Tucci as being in > late Gupta characters, and the description of this manuscript by Horiuchi > as being in Siddham characters, led de Jong in his review (cited in my > opening post) to assume two different manuscripts. > > It is now clear that the manuscript reproduced in facsimile by Lokesh > Chandra and David Snellgrove in 1981 is the same as the manuscript that was > microfilmed by the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project listed at > the link provided by Ryan Conlon. If no one has a scan of this manuscript, > now almost impossible to obtain from Kathmandu, or even a scan of the 1981 > published facsimile of it, I will try to scan this facsimile and post it. > > Thanks and best regards, > > David Reigle > Colorado, U.S.A. >
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